Rt Rev Charles Keith Kipling Prosser (27 March 1897''

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'' – 27 June 1954) was an Anglican clergyman who was the fifth

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from 1950 until 1954. Born in

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, he was the son of grocer Charles Richard Prosser and Annie May Cox, daughter of Rev. William Kipling Cox. Educated at

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, he served during World War I with the

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. He joined as a private in 1916 and was demobilised as a lieutenant in 1920 having earned a mention in despatches. He had a motorcycle accident in France in May, 1918, which led to hospitalisation. He served in 99 Siege Battery which suffered heavy casualties in June, 1918, when he was still recovering. Later that year, he caught Spanish flu and measles, and it was not until March, 1919 that he was fully fit. After the war, he studied at

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before

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in 1923. Successively

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of Bishop Latimer's Church,

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,Brief Church History
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and

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, he was ordained to the

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in 1950. He died in post four years later.

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1897 births People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Royal Garrison Artillery officers Bishops of Burnley 1954 deaths British Army personnel of World War I 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub